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Ed Sylvanus Iskandar tackles and conquers Taming of the Shrew (review)
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Taming of the Shrew is an extraordinary production, one of the most original and well thought out presentations of Shakespeare I’ve seen in years. Director Ed Sylvanus...
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The Little Match Girl (review) at Spoleto Festival USA
Have you ever sat beside a lake at night and listened to the sounds? Or stood on an urban street corner in inky blackness or more exactly in a snowstorm where the world becomes unfamiliar in the...
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Source Festival opens June 8: “Dive in and don’t be afraid”
Two dozen new works will be on display as part of Washington D.C.’s Ninth Annual Source Festival, running June 8 through July 3, and theater fans will surely be intrigued by what’s being staged. “Dive...
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Oliver Thornton, playing Bianca. What Taming of the Shrew says about love
“It was as if the audience was holding its breath” I said. “It’s like that every night” he answered. I was talking with Oliver Thornton who plays Bianca in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s all male The...
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Spoleto Festival USA 2016 celebrates its 40th anniversary (review)
Last time I was here in 2013 I was swept into the flurry of opening celebrations, including the noontime grandstand with mayoral speeches and brass band and the late night garden party for sponsors,...
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Don’t miss these stars on Starz: Hopkins and McKellen in The Dresser
“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen,” speaks the Fool in King Lear. The action of The Dresser takes place over one night before, during, and after a performance of that venerated...
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Spoleto makes a gorgeous Porgy and Bess for Charleston (review)
This year’s big fortieth anniversary event at Spoleto Festival USA was the long-anticipated new production of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, as a celebration of the city that gave birth to the...
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The Who & The What at Round House Theatre (review)
“For you to be happy is all I’ve ever wanted…” Pretty words. Funny how often the subtext is “as long as you’re happy how I want you to be happy.” Control issues abound in The Who & The What, Ayad...
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Watch: How Broadway stars wind down after the show
Actors train to get into character, but how do they get out of it? What happens at the end of a night’s intense performance, or at the conclusion of a run? Watch the videos below for answers from...
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Nataki Garrett directs provocative Octoroon at Woolly Mammoth
Director Nataki Garrett remembers studying the script of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 antebellum melodrama The Octoroon in college. While working with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Neighbors in...
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Ireland 100: Alarm Will Sound’s The Hunger (review)
Alarm Will Sound presented a concert version of the opera The Hunger by Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy at the Kennedy Center Wednesday night. It is a most curious mash of video interviews with...
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Spoleto’s Alyson Cambridge on playing Bess
Soprano Alyson Cambridge, who began her career here in Washington, DC and has gone on to perform on some of the major opera stages of the world including Washington National Opera. She is making her...
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Mats Ek’s Juliet and Romeo at The Kennedy Center (review)
The audience in the Opera House at the Kennedy Center last night was buzzing for the North American Premiere of Juliet and Romeo by the choreographer Mats Ek, performed by the Swedish National Ballet....
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DCTS Guide to Capital Fringe 2016
July 7 – 31, 2016 Fringe Show Producers: click for special offer See at the main Fringe hangout Logan Fringe Arts Center 1358 Florida Ave, NE, Washington, DC 20002 We’ll be back starting June 16 with...
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Ada/Ava, chamber music and a coda for Spoleto Festival USA 2016
Sometimes the best of the “best in art” sneaks up on you. So it was with Spoleto Festival USA’s 2016 season. Maybe this year it had to do with the fanfare around the Festival’s “made-for-Charleston”...
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An Octoroon at Woolly Mammoth Theatre (review)
Daring to take on incendiary subjects of race and slavery is a risky move, but playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is not averse to controversy, and the awards and accolades keep coming – The play won an...
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Hamilton sparks Tony question: are sung-through musicals just concerts with...
New York Times drama critic Charles Isherwood inadvertently sparked a controversy when, in a discussion of the 2016 Tony Awards, he commented about Hamilton: “I do find it slightly puzzling that it was...
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DCTS free ticket giveaway: District Merchants at Folger Theatre. Closes...
For this week’s giveaway, we have two pair of tickets to Aaron Posner’s District Merchants at Folger Theatre. Love and litigation, deep passions, and predatory lending are taken to a new level in...
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El Paso Blue at GALA Hispanic Theatre (review)
El Paso Blue by Hispanic playwright Octavio Solís, now making its East Coast debut at the GALA Hispanic Theatre, is a bilingual tribute to Spanglish, (with no surtitles), to the painful journey of...
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Faction of Fools reprises The Miser (review)
Known for its heightened physical Commedia dell’Arte and mirth, the award winning Faction of Fools Theatre Company takes on Molière’s The Miser for a delightful romp of wit and foolery. In the hands...
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